{"id":278191,"date":"2026-05-20T15:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/278191\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T15:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T15:22:09","slug":"south-florida-pastor-accused-of-raping-young-girl-cops-say-there-may-be-additional-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/278191\/","title":{"rendered":"South Florida pastor accused of raping young girl; cops say \u2018there may be additional victims\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published:\u00a0May 20, 2026 at 10:54 AM<\/p>\n

lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand\"\"Elie Dorcius (MDCR) <\/p>\n

NORTH MIAMI, Fla. \u2014 A South Florida pastor was arrested on child rape and molestation charges on Tuesday and authorities say they think he may have victimized others.<\/p>\n

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Records show<\/a> Elie Dorcius, 62, is the pastor of Unity Baptist Church at 13001 NW Seventh Ave. in North Miami. He also lives in North Miami.<\/p>\n

According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office, a woman came forward to say that Dorcius had raped her beginning when she was 5 years old and committed other acts of sexual abuse when she was a child.<\/p>\n

Local 10 News is not disclosing the relationship between Dorcius and the accuser in order to avoid identifying her.<\/p>\n

Authorities said he declined to speak with investigators about the allegations.<\/p>\n

An MDSO spokesperson said in a news release that owing \u201cto his position within the community, detectives believe there may be additional victims.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anyone with information or who believes they may have been victimized by Dorcius is asked to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.<\/p>\n

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Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 20, 2026 at 10:54 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandElie Dorcius (MDCR) NORTH MIAMI, Fla. \u2014 A South Florida pastor was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-278191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}